Recent advances toward sustainable cities have promoted the concept of near-zero energy
consumption. A Positive Energy Building (PEB) model has been developed by the European …

The occupants' presence, activities, and behaviour can significantly impact the building's
performance and energy efficiency. Currently, heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning …

Thermal comfort is fundamental to indoor environmental design and operation as well as
indoor thermal environment evaluation. This paper has reviewed the historic evolution of …

This paper provides a systematic review on the application of Machine Learning (ML) in
thermal comfort studies to highlight the latest methods and findings and provide an agenda …

Rising global temperatures have resulted in urban heat waves in recent years, endangering
residents' health and even their lives. As a result, accurate outdoor thermal comfort …

Well-being in the built environment is a topic that features frequently in building standards
and certification schemes, in scholarly articles and in the general press. However, despite …

As urban development progresses, the built environment control has faced more critical
challenges in improving energy efficiency, air quality, and environmental comfort. Occupant …

A personal comfort model is an approach to thermal comfort modeling, for thermal
environmental design and control, that predicts an individual's thermal comfort response …

Reinforcement learning (RL) has been shown to have the potential for optimal control of
heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems. Although research on RL-based …

Personal thermal management (PTM) technologies, which establish local thermal envelope
around human body instead of cooling/heating the entire building space, have great …